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TIL Dr. Dre’s son died of a heroin overdose in 2008

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DQdMr TIL the Civil Rights Act of 1968 passed only days after Martin Luther King Jr's assassination and the widespread civil unrest across the country following King's death
4RJa TIL that Genghis Khan set up an institution to ensure complete religious freedom in the Mongol empire.
d8g5B TIL the term "robot" used to mean the compulsory labor of serfs, and the word "patent" used do mean "decree". Therefore, when the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II abolished serfdom, the decrees got to be called "robot patent" in English
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